Eddie D.
- Director
- Actor
- Editor
Eddie D lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Born in 1963, he
became a punk-rocker at the end of the 1970s which laid the basis of
the d.i.y. attitude in his work. He studied media-art at the AKI
art-school in Enschede, the Netherlands after which he made his debut
with the highly acclaimed "Eddie D Presents", a breakthrough in
rhythmical video (also called Videomusic). Eddie D's work consists of
photos, videotapes and video/computer installations and he is the
director as well as editor of all his films. Themes are deconstruction
of language, rhythm and the relation between image and sound. His
videotapes are musical compositions in which he uses his almost perfect
editing technique to build rhythmical structures with repetition as a
striking element. Music is a basic influence; as a formal starting
point as well as a source of structures and patterns. His work is
internationally considered the standard in this genre of video art. He
uses found footage combined with self-shot video and animated photos.
He mixes layers of cut-out images in a collage-like technique that
combines video and animation.